Citation

United States Department of Health and Human Services. National Center for Health Statistics. National Survey of Family Growth, Cycle II, 1976: Couple File . Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2008-11-26. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR07902.v2

Alternate Title

1976 NSFG: Couple File

Summary

This data collection contains information on fertility,
family planning, and related aspects of maternal and child health
for 8,611 women aged 15-44 living in the coterminous United States
who were either currently married, previously married, or never
married but had offspring living in the household in 1976. The data
have been utilized by the National Center for Health Statistics
as the basis for a series of reports on the determinants and
consequences of patterns of family formation and fertility in
the United States. This release of Cycle II of the 1976 Survey of
Family Growth data contains extensive information on respondents'
methods of family planning, prenatal and postnatal health care,
family size preferences, and child care usage. Other demographic
variables provide information on respondent's family, marital, and
employment histories, date of birth, race, ethnicity, religion,
education, occupation, and income. Additional information about the
respondents can be found in the related collection, NATIONAL SURVEY
OF FAMILY GROWTH, CYCLE II, 1976: INTERVAL FILE (ICPSR 8181).

Citation

United States Department of Health and Human Services. National Center for Health Statistics. National Survey of Family Growth, Cycle II, 1976: Couple File . Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2008-11-26. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR07902.v2

Geographic Coverage

Time Period(s)

Date of Collection

1976-01 -- 1976-09

Data Collection Notes

Per agreement with NCHS, ICPSR
distributes the data file(s) and text of the technical documentation
for this collection as prepared by NCHS.

This study also collected data on approximately
26 pregnancy intervals which are not included in this release of
the study, although this release does contain many summary
measures of fertility derived from the interval file. Users who
wish to use the detailed information from the pregnancy interval
file may contact ICPSR to obtain that data.

See also the related
collections, NATIONAL SURVEY OF FAMILY GROWTH, CYCLE II, 1976:
INTERVAL FILE (ICPSR 8181), NATIONAL SURVEY OF FAMILY GROWTH, CYCLE I,
1973 (ICPSR 7898), NATIONAL SURVEY OF FAMILY GROWTH, CYCLE III,
1982 (ICPSR 8328), NATIONAL SURVEY OF FAMILY GROWTH, CYCLE IV,
1988 (ICPSR 9473), NATIONAL SURVEY OF FAMILY GROWTH, CYCLE IV: 1990
TELEPHONE INTERVIEW (ICPSR 6643), and NATIONAL SURVEY OF FAMILY GROWTH,
CYCLE V, 1995 (ICPSR 6960).

Sample

A multistage probability sample of women aged 15-44
living in the coterminous United States who were either currently
married, previously married, or never married but had offspring
living in the household in 1973.

Data Source

personal interviews

Data Type(s)

Original Release Date

1984-03-18

Version Date

2008-11-26

Version History

1984-03-18 ICPSR data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of disclosure. ICPSR also routinely creates ready-to-go data files along with setups in the major statistical software formats as well as standard codebooks to accompany the data. In addition to these procedures, ICPSR performed the following processing steps for this data collection:

Created online analysis version with question text.

2008-11-26 This study has been updated to include SAS, SPSS, and Stata setup files as well as SAS transport, SPSS system, and Stata system files.

Notes

The public-use data files in this collection are available for access by the general public. Access does not require affiliation with an ICPSR member institution.

This study is provided by ICPSR. ICPSR provides leadership and training in data access, curation, and methods of analysis for a diverse and expanding social science research community.